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Machine Learning

(Video recordings see 12 )

Unsupervised Learning: Pattern recognision, dimension reduction, cluster analysis

• "Distance metrics": Euclidean, p-metric (Hölder metric), neigborhood functions in grids, cosine distance, ...
• Voronoi Diagram
• k-means cluster analysis
• Hierarchical cluster
• Self Organizing Maps (Kohonen Maps)

Supervised Learning: Regression, prediction

• Linear regression
• Discriminant analysis
• kNN (k-Nearest-Neighbors)
• Perceptron
• Multilayer perceptron (Neural Network ... next lecture)

Readings

https://datalion.com/best-free-math-books-for-machine-learning/

Genetic Algorithms

• Sims, Karl. ‘Artifical Evolution for Computer Graphics’. Computer Graphics, ACM SIGGRAPH ’91 Conference Proceedings, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 1991, 25, no. 4 (July 1991): 319–28. http://www.karlsims.com/papers/siggraph91.html
• Sims, Karl. "Evolving Virtual Creatures." Paper presented at SIGGRAPH '94: The 21st Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Orlando, FL, July 24-29, 1994. http://www.karlsims.com/papers/siggraph94.pdf
• Holland, John H. “Genetic Algorithms.” Scientific American 267, no. 1 (1992): 66–73. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24939139.
• Dewdney, A. K. “Exploring the Field of Genetic Algorithms. COMPUTER RECREATIONS.” Scientific American 253, no. 5 (1985): 21–33. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24967834.

Studio

• Code Examples
• Megaverse, a dedicated high-throughput rendering and simulation engine for Artificial Intelligence research https://github.com/alex-petrenko/megaverse

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